The Cavalier daily. :: Tuesday, September 17, 1968 :: University of Virginia Library

Headlining this season's cultural
schedule is the University Union
Artists Series. Each year the series
brings to the University a wide
selection of talent in the concert
and dramatic fields.

Leading off the six programs for
this year's series will be the
National Ballet, returning this year
with a special program prepared for
its appearance at the University on
Thursday, October 17.

On Monday, November 4, the
Orchestre De Paris will present a
concert in University Hall with
Serge Baudo conducting and Alexis
Weissenberg as piano soloist. The
Orchestre made its debut less than a
year ago in Paris to wide acclaim.
France-Soir praised the "new
blood" and "new spirit" of the
young musicians in the Orchestre,
calling them "the best orchestra in
the world".

Claude Rostan of Le Figaro
Litteraire said of the group's
conductor, "In top forms, visibly
exalted by the potential of
carefully prepared work, Serge
Baudo reminded me of Philippe
Gaubert in his great days. Baudo's
age prevents him from knowing
what kind of compliment I am
making this way..."

Mr. Weissenberg, the piano
soloist, is well known in this
country, having appeared as soloist
with the New York Philharmonic
and the Philadelphia Orchestra.

Hague Philharmonic

The Hague Philharmonic, after
an absence of four seasons, is
returning to this country for its
third American tour. On Sunday,
January 19, they will perform in
University Hall under the direction
of Willem Van Otterloo, who has
led the orchestra in more than 1750
concerts and under whose baton
the orchestra has achieved
international recognition for the
highest standards of performance.

On Tuesday, February 25, the
Goldovsky Gran Opera Theater will
perform the most popular French
opera in modern history,
"Carmen", as part of the Artist
Series. "Carmen," which has now
surpassed every other opera in
number of productions in the
United States, will be performed in
English by the most successful
travelling company in America.

Performed originally as an
"opera comique" that is, with
spoken dialogue, Boris Goldovsky
returns to that concept for this
production of Bizet's "Carmen."

'La Mancha'

In its first year on Broadway,
"Man of La Mancha" won all
awards for the best musical of the
year. Now in its third year on
Broadway, this most popular of
musicals will be performed in
Charlottesville Wednesday, March 5
in University Hall by the national
touring company. Cervantes'
defense of himself and his book, in
a mock trial in a dungeon of the
Inquisition dungeon of the
Inquisition, is full of colorful acting
and beautiful songs such as "The
Impossible Dream," as he answers
the charge of being "an idealist, a
bad poet and an honest man."

To celebrate the birthday of Mr.
Jefferson and to end the Artist
Series, the Richmond Symphony
will return again this year with a
concert featuring Korean violinist,
Young Uck Kim on Monday, April
14.

Season Ticket

Season tickets for the Artist
Series are still available in the
Director's Office in Newcomb Hall
at $9.00 each for students and 16
each for non-students.

Season memberships are also
available in the Tuesday Evening
Concert Series. Sponsored by the
department of music, the series will
present eight concerts in Old Cabell
Hall Auditorium this year.

The series will open on October
15 with The Juilliard String Quartet
which, according to Harold
Schonberg of the New York Times,
"represents the very model of
modern quartet playing at its best."

Since its establishment nearly 20
years ago, the quartet has come to
be considered the interpretive
group without peer for the 20th
century repertoire as well as works
of the classical and romantic
periods.

Two weeks later Bernard
Kruysen, European baritone, will
perform in Cabell Hall. Mr. Kruysen
has won awards for his
interpretation of French songs, has
presented concerts throughout
Europe and won the 1964 Paris
Orphee d'or for his interpretation
of Schumann lieder.

Piano Concert

On November 19, Alicia De
Larrocha. Barcelona-born pianist
who has appeared in recitals and
with orchestras throughout the
United States, will present an
evening of Spanish music. Her
appearances last season included a
Bell Telephone Hour taped from
Madrid's El Prado and a Carnegie
Hall recital commemorating the
100th anniversary of the birth of
Granados.

The fourth event in the series
will be a concert on December 3, by
Japanese violinist Takako Nishizaki,
who was trained in the Suzakie
technique of teaching violin to very
young children. As a symphony
orchestra soloist, she has won praise,
for her splendid musicianship,
vibrant tone and delicate technique.

Brass Quintet

On the fourth of February the
New York Brass Quintet will
present a concert of brass literature
of the Renaissance and Baroque
periods.

They will be followed two
weeks later by the Ciompi Quartet,
which was organized as a string
quarter in 1965 and appointed
quartet-in-residence at Duke
University in 1966. With four
outstanding string players from this
country and Europe, the quartet
has toured widely and been highly
praised for the brilliance and color
of its ensemble work.

Flute, Keyboard

On March 4, Jean-Pierre Rampal
and Robert Veyron-Lacrois, flute
and keyboard duo, will present a
concert. These two French
musicians will return to the
University's Tuesday Evening series
as part of their New York to
California tour that includes their
third annual set of concerts at New
York's Philharmonic Hall. The final
concert in the series will be given
on March 18 by the Festival Winds,
a permanent group of artists who
perform rarely heard masterpieces
on the woodwind repertoire.

All concerts in the series are
held at 8:15 Tuesday evenings.
Admission to the concert is by
season ticket only. No tickets will
be sold for single concerts only.

Students are encouraged to
participate actively in the musical
activities of the University,
including the glee club, the concert
and pep bands and the University
Singers. Each of these groups gives
several concerts each year.

Last year, for example, the Glee
Club performed at the State
Department, at the personal
invitation of Mrs. Dean Rusk, for
the banquet of the Washington
diplomatic corps. The Virginia Glee
Club is the only glee club ever to
appear at this annual affair.

Students who would like to
participate in any of the musical
groups of the University are
encourage to contact the Music
Department in Room 21 of Old
Cabell Hall.

Drama Whetted

Turning from music to drama,
the student can whet his cultural
appetite at any of the production
of the Virginia Players.

Acting both independently and
in conjunction with the department
of speech and drama, the Players
offer many chances for valuable
theatre experience since they
annually produce five or six major
plays, and numerous workshop
dramas.